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"You didn't know of the magical powers of the break stick? It's up there with genies and Harry Potter as far as magic levels go." SisMorphine 01/07/07

I had no idea there was a chicken camp. That's kinda cool.I told my Dad that I'm gonna mess around with Fluff (a chicken on our farm whose personality has kept her from slaughter) and clicker training next time I come home. He laughed at me.

I got a chicken from a woman on off craigslist who was super handle-able and friendly. My other chickens are too but this one was really like a pet, her favorite thing was cheese shreds. I saw clicker training the chickens online and taught her to touch a circle target... it was kind of cool. They're chickens - their brains aren't huge - they just want the food haha. It's really kind of cool what you can teach them to do.

plebayo wrote: They're chickens - their brains aren't huge - they just want the food haha. It's really kind of cool what you can teach them to do.

This is why it is possible to clicker train anything that has a brain...everything wants food. When people say..."oh, my dog's not food motivated", I always tell them that of course the dog is food motivated, otherwise it'd be dead.

"I don't have any idea if my dogs respect me or not, but they're greedy and I have their stuff." -- Patty Ruzzo

"Dogs don't want to control people. They want to control their own lives." --John Bradshaw

plebayo wrote: They're chickens - their brains aren't huge - they just want the food haha. It's really kind of cool what you can teach them to do.

This is why it is possible to clicker train anything that has a brain...everything wants food. When people say..."oh, my dog's not food motivated", I always tell them that of course the dog is food motivated, otherwise it'd be dead.

Yeah I know, it's just with chickens food and foraging is seriously their life. It's just amazing what they can do, after having had some pretty cool chickens I'll never tell someone it's "just a chicken" that's for sure :p

Chickens are wicked smart...I mean problem solving smart! I used to think that a chicken was just something you put on your table at dinner, but now that I have them my opionion has been changed. Baby chicks will play keep away with the other chicks when they aren't sleeping or eating. And they'll play it with the oddest things...this past spring, mine played it with a crust of bread, a small stick, a dried leaf...they'll use anything. Cutest thing ever. Wish I had a video to share of that...maybe when I hatch some out in the spring I can share that. Sometimes the adults will do it too if they have a high value item, but the chicks are the cutest.

My adult chickens know that the red bucket is what I bring the food out in, so if I throw the red bucket, they'll run after it, but after they see it's empty, they'll run after me knowing that the food source is me and not the bucket. Pretty smart for a bird, I'd say.